The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-17
Personal Comment.

Special to the INDIANAPOLIS Journal
NEW York. July 15-Mrs. Imogene G. Fales.
who went to England as tho American delegate
to the cooperative congress at Carlisle. has
brought home with her her daughter Ethel. who
has been studying music, with some thoughts Of
the operatic stage. in Florence. Miss Fales,
who is cousin of the Observation-Disclosures actor.
Edward Fales Coward. is an attractive girl with
a voice which, musical people say, holds out un-
usual promise OF success.
What pity Mrs. Cora Urquhart Potter could
not make up her mind to manage q company in
stead OF acting with one. She is essentially a
business woman, and knows SO we'll how to ad-
vertise. Think of her securing Kyrle Unjust we
oh must we call him Curley9) Bellew for her
American company next fall. She is sure of
matinee audiences, and she knows it, though
Bellew, in spite Of his popularity with soft-head-
ed school girls. will never rival that other young
Englshman. Montague, who used to be demi-
god to New York women, enshrined within
their hearts and framed in pictured grace on
their toilet tables. Somehow Wallack's luck
seemed to change the very week that Montague
died.
Julian Hawthorne's literary partnership with
Detective Byrnes is fresh illustration Of the
different way in which material will appeal to
different people Anna Katherine Green, whose
s'Leavenworth Case" is one Of the best known
detective tales of the day, related to me no long
time ago, that the only occasion when she
ever made an attempt to get stuff for stories
from the doings of real people, Detective Byrnes
in the course of an afternoons ride related to
her tale after tale of criminal doings that had
come under his notice without striking vein
that in any way appealed to her or suggested a
chapter that she cared to write. By and by as
they drove past an apparently deserted house
she noticed a bar Of wood fastened across the
door. sWhat is that for 2" she asked. mo
body knows" che detective answered. 'it has
been there great many years." and the words
were the germ of a story that grew out of its
own accord. in two hours time whore single
idea born of the '.facts" which realism loves
and which had been placed so lavishly at her
disposal refused to sprout.
The ''typo" who has to set Josiah Aliens
wife's manuscript is an unhappy man. Miss
Marietta Holley rivals Greeley for blindness of
ehir ography, and for the most part employs an
amanuensis to interpret the immortal Saman-
thas wife and wisdom to the composing ROOM
Mme. Fursch-Madi summers at Tanners
vile. ia the Catskills. Tannersville is Mrs;
Thurber's summer retreat if the complicated
troubles of the National Opera ever let her
leave town. Wonder il they will enjoy each
others company
/ passed one of the outlying fields of the
Yonkers farm, where she raises very respectable
crops and enjoys her summers immensely, the
other day. Rose likes to run . moving machine,
and she manages it as cleverly as she acts. Mrs.
Edeerly, as one ought to call her between sea-
sons, perhaps. is sunburning herself systemati-
cay and looks the better for it, but the prettiest
thing about the place-begging Roses pardon
for the preference-is the chubby two-year-old
girl baby that she adopted year or more ago,
and will probably bring up IS her own.
Mrs. Beechor unable since her nus
bands death to remain in Brooklyn or away
from it. Her white and pathetcally composed
face is seen among the Plymouth Pensioners
every few weeks. though nominally she is spend
ing the summer at Stamford.
In the South, Northern travellers are begin
ming to report in accents of surprise, colored
women are employed now aud then as baggage
agents on trains Well, it pays better than
plain sewing, and is easier.
You can't go anywhere in Europe this sum-
summer. they say without meeting Americans
by the score And yet the land of the free and
home of the brave does not seem exactly depop-
ulated. ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.